Antoni Miralda, No-Flash Fashion. Miralda & ELLE

No-Flash Fashion. Miralda & ELLE

Antoni Miralda

Publisher
RM / Ediciones La Bahía
Year
2023
ISBN
9788419233592
Specifications
Hardcover
19 × 26 cm
136 pages
100 images
Texts by Josep Casamartina, Peter Knapp, Valentín Roma
Design by Estudio Herrera
English or Spanish edition
Co-published with Ediciones La Bahía

Artist and restaurateur Antoni Miralda presents for the first time his 1960s fashion photography from Paris and London. ELLE magazine was then directed by the journalist Hélène Lazareff and the art director Peter Knapp, and it was at this time that Miralda photographed the beginning of the supermodels and the arrival of the sensational and radically different Twiggy.

Fashion photography occupies an unknown, but important place in Miralda's career. After settling in Paris, the artist began to collaborate regularly with ELLE between 1964 and 1971, working on contemporary seasonal collections linked to the art world. Among the many reports carried out for the magazine, one stands out for the notoriety of the model who stars in it, the iconic Twiggy.

Most images at the time showed models in studios, while Miralda took them out into the street, into an uncodified and unpredictable space. Faced with the Grand Paris of Haussmann, of museums and imposing cathedrals, Miralda prefers the blind points of historicist urbanism: popular, uncliched places with a great human density. With its contemporary design and its references to fashion magazines and archives, the volume presents for the first time a detailed view of this undiscovered work.

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